We are all telling ourselves a story with our thoughts. Our thoughts generate our emotions. Our emotions are sustained by the story we tell. Too often we are telling ourselves an unhelpful story. We think we must tell ourselves this story. We think this story is just true. But I have found that it is …
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The Story I Am Telling Myself – 2
The stories we tell ourselves have power. When I realized the power we have to choose the story we tell ourselves, I had to acknowledge the story I was telling myself about me, about my decisions, about my finances, about my worth, about my life. I had to choose to pay attention to the story …
The Story I Am Telling Myself
The stories we tell ourselves have power. I have decided to practice awareness of the story I am telling myself. I have decided to practice awareness of what my thoughts are creating for me. I have decided to practice choosing my thoughts intentionally and creating the feelings I want to feel. I have realized that …
Wherever You Go.
Wherever you go. However you get there. There you will be. You bring all of you wherever you go. We cannot “escape” ourselves. We take all our insecurities, fears, hopes, dreams, everything, all of us, with us wherever we go. Which sounds so straight forward but I think sometimes people think they can leave part …
Traveling Observations.
Traveling is exciting and adventurous. It can also be stressful and tense. Traveling takes time and gets us off/out of our schedules, long hours on planes, and in vehicles in transit, delays, out of your normal routines, lack of sleep, irregular food intake, unfamiliar places, confusion and uncertainty can all contribute to high emotions. This …
Believe.
Our beliefs are the thoughts that we have practiced thinking over and over again. We have to practice believing a new thought in order to begin to act a different way. Our brains form pathways. We think a thought and our body responds based on the pathway we have created over time. If we want …
A New Way.
I used to be stuck in a cycle of seeing everything that was wrong, then I decided to open my eyes to everything that was right. I used to try to do all the things I thought were “right” that would create the results I wanted, but I constantly felt like I messed up, fell …
Mind Management.
A life changing realization for me was realizing I could learn to manage my mind. I had always assumed that what I thought was just what I thought but I came to understand the power I have to choose my thoughts! I realized my power to change my experience of my life by changing the …
Trust and Receive.
Do you trust God? Do you receive His gifts? We build trust. We choose to believe, have faith, before we have the evidence of what we hope for. (Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.) I was talking with a friend recently about how I …
Life Is Not Easy and That Is Okay
Life is challenging. We are students of life. We have never done this before. We are figuring it out as we go. We are always in the process of becoming. This should cause us to be kind to ourselves as we navigate and move through life. Most of us think we should be further along, …
seeking and discovering a better WAY 